Sex worker turned law student dies Wendy Babcock, 32, sought prostitution law reform

[Lexi]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...ver-death.html

[Lexi]

More on Wendy she did a lot for the trans community

http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/We...ead-10619.aspx

[chantel]

R.I.P Wendy, your work in the community helped so many others,my condolences go out to friends and family.You will be missed.

[Raging Bob]

That's a very sad story, i guess she just got tired of fighting......but the thing to remember is although no one fought for her she was ready to fight for everybody else.R.I.P.

[Shyla Wild]

32 is awfully young to die. Does anyone know Cause of Death? Something seems off.

[Raging Bob]

Article said it was a suicide, but they didn't get into specifics....kinda glad they didn't.

[Shyla Wild]

Article said it was a suicide, but they didn't get into specifics....kinda glad they didn't.

Suicide? That is very very surprising. Here are two quotes from the articles:

Scout says the community as a whole failed Babcock. She was continually denied any information about her son, who is in the care of the Children’s Aid Society (CAS), and devoted her life to getting him back, even giving up sex work. Scout says, “She would have done anything to get him back.”

Close friend Morgan Page, who is the trans community services coordinator at the 519 Church St Community Centre, says Babcock had just completed the draft of a memoir to coincide with her graduation. Page says Babcock's friends will now work to have the memoir published in her honour.

I'm not a psych, nor did I know this person, and maybe I read something wrong; but how often do people fighting for their son and about to graduate commit suicide?

[Raging Bob]

Just saying what's said in this article posted above....

http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/We...ead-10619.aspx

[Shyla Wild]

Just saying what's said in this article posted above....

http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/We...ead-10619.aspx

oh, I wasn't attacking you. I just wondered if anyone found this strange.